Gourmet News


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Weekly World News


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Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.




The Brokeass Gourmet Cookbook


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BrokeAss Gourmet is the premier food and lifestyle blog for folks who want to live the high life on the cheap. The blog features recipes that are always under $20, along with great advice on inexpensive but delicious beers, wines, and cocktails, plus other topics relating to the BrokeAss Gourmet lifestyle. The site and its vivacious founder, Gabi Moskowitz, have garnered thousands of followers and received national publicity, including being featured on MSN Money and Time.com. Gabi has also contributed several videos to "Appetites,” the number-one food app on iTunes. Now this first ever The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook offers more than 200 delicious and easy recipes for a variety of meals, from soups and starters to main dishes and desserts. And once the pantry is stocked, all the other ingredients can be bought for $20 or under.




From Kitchen to Market


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"A thorough guide on food marketing that is sure to help food entrepreneurs at all levels. Extensive appendices are an added plus to an already strong and well-written guide. Strongly recommended." Library Journal Specialty and gourmet foods can sell as great as they taste. To grab a slice of the action, here are the proven methods for successfully launching a gourmet food product into the specialty foods marketplace. The only book of its kind that outlines every food marketing opportunity and then supports entrepreneurial action with detailed guidance, From Kitchen to Market shows food entrepreneurs how to: * Identify a winning product and its most appropriatemarkets. * Achieve visual "sizzle" with packaging and labeling. * Establish a variety of distribution channels. * Optimize the Internet.




Retail Superstars


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How small, one-of-a-kind businesses can break through among giants Megachains like Walmart, Starbucks, Home Depot, and The Gap attract Americans to thousands of outlets by offering a large selection of goods and services. But this doesn't mean that independent stores can't compete with the big guys-and win. Retail expert George Whalin identifies and explores twenty-five highly popular and profitable independent stores from around the country. Unlike the mom-and-pops of yesteryear, these businesses embrace technology and innovation, generate word of mouth, and turn their size into an advantage. They include: ? ABC Carpet and Home in New York City ? Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon ? The Junkman's Daughter in Atlanta ? Jungle Jim's International Market in Fairfield, Ohio Readers will be inspired by how these independent stores are thriving and take away lessons they can apply to their own businesses.




ASTA Travel News


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Fast Media, Media Fast


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Media overload threatens quality of life, relationships, and intellectual and social development of children. The author is a modern-day Thoreau, living for a month in a media-less Walden and has become an advocate for media responsibility. He shares his experiences, providing a guide on how to prepare, experiment, and learn during a media fast (or diet or blackout). He describes communities that are "no media" pockets of society, such as the Old Order Amish, who ban all electronic media. Readers learn how to find personal balance by stepping outside the media maelstrom.




Habeas Codfish


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From the McDonald's hot coffee case to the cattle ranchers' beef with Oprah Winfrey, from the old English "Assize of Bread" to current nutrition labeling laws, what we eat and how we eat are shaped as much by legal regulations as by personal taste. Barry M. Levenson, the curator of the world-famous (really!) Mount Horeb Mustard Museum and a self-proclaimed "recovering lawyer," offers in Habeas Codfish an entertaining and expert overview of the frustrating, frightening, and funny intersections of food and the law. Discover how Mr. Peanut shaped the law of trademark infringement for the entire food industry. Consider the plight of the restaurant owner besmirched by a journalist's negative review. Find out how traditional Jewish laws of kashrut ran afoul of the First Amendment. Prison meals, butter vs. margarine, definitions of organic food, undercover ABC reporters at the Food Lion, the Massachusetts Supreme Court case that saved fish chowder, even recipes--it's all in here, so tuck in!